Review Fix Exclusive: Inside Episode Three of Bear With Me

Review Fix chats with the creative director of Bear With Me, Hrvoje Maros, who discusses the final episode of the point-and-click adventure and what’s next for the series and the developer.

About Episode Three of Bear With Me:

At the close of episode two, the series’ heroine, a 10-year old girl named Amber, was kidnapped. Now it will be up to her imaginary private eye sidekick, Ted E. Bear, to rescue his partner, locate her missing brother and catch their nemesis.

To get to the bottom of this mystery, Ted will gather clues, interview a cast of other toys brought to life and solve puzzles, all while quipping one-liners and pop culture references.

Review Fix: What has it been like to work with this series?

Hrvoje Maros: Bear With Me was a learning experience. It was our first big IP, and for the most part we were really just trying our best. We’ve learned a great deal from the process and hopefully, we’ll take those lessons with our next project. It was a lot of fun figuring all this stuff out, though.

Review Fix: What have you learned about yourself as a developer?

Maros: We’ve learned we work well under pressure and we can get really creative when facing deadlines. We’ve also learned there is nothing we can’t pull off if we set out minds to it. Knowing this is really reassuring, like a safety net.

Review Fix: What makes this episode special?

Maros: Since this is the last episode, this is the one where all the questions will be answered. Who’s Red? What happened to Flint? Was it all in Amber’s mind? And so on… It’s an exciting, emotional finale filled with twists and revelations.

Review Fix: What has been the feedback from the community on the first two episodes and how has that influenced this one?

Maros: The main thing we got from the feedback is to make the duration of episodes longer. Episode 2 was twice as long (gameplay wise) than episode 1. Episode 3 has almost double the content of first two episodes combined. What we were going for here is the same duration of the game as a whole, but spread across fewer episodes. Also, to cut back on 4th wall breakers a bit, so we did.

Review Fix: How do you want this episode to be remembered?

Maros: We’re hoping the last episode will leave a lasting impression on the players long after they finish the episode, and leave them with a satisfying conclusion to an interesting series.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Maros: Only time will tell… We’re hoping to unify the episodic format of BWM. We have some other projects we would like to get started on, also some older ones in need of revising.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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